AnOther
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That zooms the whole page not just the fat ugly 'improved' text.
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Should have listened to your mother Wolly [:D]
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So which is it, a coc.ked up 'update' or half ar5ed fix for a glitch ?BTW the background hasn't disappeared merely changed to a boat.[img]http://i.imgur.com/tmc1ww1.jpg[/img]
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On the PC and laptop looks like another half baked co.ck up to me, clearly thorough testing isn't high on the list of priorities - nothing new there then. Oversize and ugly too.[img]http://i.imgur.com/HbNCeC1.jpg[/img]BTW if James May can say C O C K on prime time BBC WTF can't we use the word here !
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Fair warms the cockles of the heart but why has it taken 5 years ?
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The current simplified formula doesn't take such things as number of gears into account any more but if you look up both versions you'll see the difference in emissions from where you can work it out for yourself.http://www.lacentrale.fr/fiche-technique-auto.php
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An automatic will generally be less fuel efficient than it's equivalent manual which transposes into more c02 per km and since that's a major factor in working out the CV it's not too surprising that there is a differential.A bit outdated but this should give you an overview of just what nachronistic nonsense CV ratings are.The current formula can be found here but frankly is equally bizarre.
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[quote user="parsnips"]1. If the french tax authorities become aware of the gift - ie informed by a french bank (as they do) of a large sum being paid in with no known origin - so pass the money via UK accounts possibly in stages.>>I assume that the money will be transferred to you in the UK so you have no need to declare it anywhere. Even if the most unlikely happened and the french tax office , in some way , learned of the gift , there are no penalties, provided you gave details within a month of them asking you about it.[/quote]Both smack of deception and tax evasion to me and why would you be bothered about the French tax man finding out if it were all above board ?The idea that just because money is deposited into a UK bank means that you don't have to declare it is ridiculous, according to that the two small private pensions I have deposited there are non declarable. Whichever way you look at it it's income and even if it is somehow exonerated under French rules that's for the French tax man to decide not you so simply not declaring it cannot be the correct way.Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the advice being given only the reasoning behind it.Personally I would have thought a cleaner way to enact such a gift would be for the giver to transfer the money direct to the dealer, some might even take a credit card over the phone, that way there would be no real financial trail to follow and and even if it did somehow come to the attention of the tax man far easier to justify a car as a gift then a secretive money transfer.
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Is car #1 a VW !It's an impossible question though as 'nicer to drive' is completely subjective and within class comparing by engine size and/or CV is virtually meaningless therefore it comes down to your personal definition of 'nice', presumably you have test driven them ?If not, and if the price differential really is of no consequence, then you might just as well choose by something as banal as colour or which has got the most convenient place for your handbag !One thing to think about, smaller engines do not always equate to better fuel economy and that's never truer than in the small car class you're looking at, that's where real world reviews come into it, NEVER go by the manufacturers claims.
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How the hell did a thread about Trump end up being about bored in Bordeaux and Brussels ???????To bring it back Trumps approval rating has now fallen to 42% and disapproval jumped to 53%, seems the American public may actually be starting to realise just what it is they have done by putting a malignant narcissist on the White House.As a topical aside I hope this lady never applies for a visa for the Disunited States of Trumpland, is she got there she'd likely be picked up and waterboarded to make her retract and say that his Trumpness was right all along.
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Don't know but if it were family money and cash I'd stick it under the mattress and keep stum.I presume we're not talking about 10's of thousands.
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I'm amazed anybody still believes that door on the wrong side nonsense, I would have to surmise that they are probably the same feeble minded folk who fall for 419 scams and phishing emails which the vast majority can spot from 500 paces !
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I think you may be labouring under some misconceptions.Being compliant with EU directives is not what it's about, they simply (simply ???) lay down the design and construction rules by which a vehicle should be manufactured however before being placed on sale it must still gain approval which is done by independent testing, including a crash test, which in turn awards it the all important Certificate of Conformity, the proof that it complies with the directives in other words.Note that on top of a basic CoC individual member states may also impose their own additional requirements which although likely to be only be minor would produce a new CoC, one only fully valid in that state, and an entirely different number only relevant in that state.Vans and other commercial vehicles typically will fall into that category, your base UK Sprinter included never mind the camper conversion which is an entirely different subject.The crucial item I'm sure you're missing then is a valid CoC number which, despite all the forms and rigmarole, is really all the prefecture need because punching that into their computer will immediately retrieve the matching CoC on which will be every scrap of information they require to process the registration, absent that number there is nothing they can do and your only option then is a trip to the DREAL for an individual inspection but with no guarantee that they will approve it without potentially expensive modifications. Think of that as analogous to the SVA (Single Vehicle Approval) that things like kit cars and heavily modified vehicles have to go through in UK in order to get them registered.
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Not sure what advice you're hoping for as every case like this will be unique not least of all because of the disparate reactions of individual prefectures ?Unsure also why you think that your experience with a car 'years ago' would bear any relevance to what you are trying to do today ?Even today commercial vehicles will rarely if ever have EU wide approval which in turn means that EU CoC's are not available for them and the best you are likely to get is a territorial or partial one which will not fully cut the mustard in France.Given that then it should come as no surprise at all to find that hybrid campers built on such base vehicles will fall outside even that and therefore prove even more problematic.That you even got it through a CT without a proper CoC is a aberration but if there is any banging of heads on walls in frustration to be done then let it not be at the prefecture but at your own self for failing to do the necessary homework before buying the vehicle !You only needed to come here and ask [blink]
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Once upon a time UK had the pretty much the best everything in the world.Sadly it's fallen to but a pale shadow of it's former glory and there is very little 'great' about it now and we're all responsible for that in part.
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So a poker game all along, no doubt both parties will claim victory but I wonder who blinked first ?http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2017/01/31/11th-hour-settlement-of-sky-discovery-dispute
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[quote user="crabtree"]when the gendarmes and pompiers arrived at the scene of the accident they were quite surprised that it was my wife and I who had been the occupants of the vehicle! They had expected to find bodies inside.If you wish to see the photos of the car I can let you have copies!!!![/quote]Previously you said:[quote user="crabtree"]Apart from a cracked windscreen, a broken passenger window and a dent in the roof the shell of the Modus was intact.[/quote]Are you now saying it was otherwise ?
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[quote user="crabtree"]Thanks to that well built car we are here to tell the tale.[/quote]A tad OTT don't you think ?Given the minor injuries you actually sustained to so much as hint that in another car you would have both lost your lives - which taken verbatim is what you are saying - is disingenuous in the extreme !Truth is that without exactly recreating the crash in a selection of equivalent vehicles of the time you cannot possibly know what part that particular car played in preventing more serious injury nor how better or worse you might have fared in any other so while the tale may be of passing interest as an unqualified recommendation for Renault today it's relevance is slim at best.Personally it would be a sorry and desperate day indeed when I bought a French car of any make !
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Bring Anne Widdecombe out to charm him, that should give him the screaming abdabs !
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I think the real point is that when you rush in rules and laws which have not been properly thought through the effects of the unintended consequences can be extremely far reaching and likely to create more division than there already is. Because of hasty drafting he's already been forced to back down on some dual nationality and green card holder victims and if the courts have to yank his chain every time he opens his mouth to further demonstrate his ignorance and lack of any nous or humanity then it's hard to see him lasting very long.He already has the dubious honour of achieving a majority disapproval rating in just 8 days when typically presidents don't reach that milestone until years into their terms so I think the sort of protests we've been seeing so far may be just the tip of an iceberg.[img]http://i.imgur.com/c9SN4Ab.jpg[/img]
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928/Can't see it making any difference though because May is desperate for a trade deal so will suck up to him regardless, dent his ego at your peril.
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[quote user="alittlebitfrench"]OMG !Can you receive Sky in France ?[/quote]A very intelligent reply.
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In some sort of spat over the financial deal Discovery are pulling the plug on all their content on Feb 1st.https://www.joe.co.uk/entertainment/sky-set-record-straight-loss-discovery-eurosport-channels-tv-packages/109833Don't expect any reduction in the subscription though !
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It was the OP who mentioned 1m3.Maximum excess baggage both on RA and Easyjet is 32kg and is charged at £10/kg, mainstream and flag carriers typically levy a charge 1% of the 1st class airfare per kg so could easily exceed that.From the comparison website the best price for a 1m3 pallet weighing 100kg is €340I know what I'd do !
Petition to ban Trump from UK state visit.
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